Footprints, Signed to Henry Kissinger

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[Signed Presentation to Henry and Nancy Kissinger] Astor, Brooke. Footprints, An Autobiography. First Edition. 1980. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is inscribed on the flyleaf, “For Henry and Nancy, with gratitude for what they stand for, affectionately, Brooke, July 3, 1980.”

Before her death in 2007, Mrs. Astor was one of the few still living to have remembered the fall of Imperial Russia and have a father-in-law perish aboard the Titanic. Her significance to history is she was one of two Mrs. Astors who presided over New York’s social order. The first worried about how to squeeze four hundred guests into her ballroom. This Mrs. Astor was concerned with how to distribute two hundred million dollars to New York charities. Here, she recounts her life story with equal parts warmth, humor, and noblesse oblige.

“The French say ‘To know all is to forgive all.’ Well, one can never know all, and cannot in one’s heart forgive everything, but one can appear to do so, and then one eventually forgets.”​--Brooke Astor